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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Gloria Dickie

Why did past targets to protect nature fail over the last decade?

FILE PHOTO: Delegates cheer after the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources was agreed on at a plenary session of the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) past midnight in Nagoya, central Japan October 30, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

This month's U.N. biodiversity talks in Montreal aim to hammer out a new, global agreement. But this isn't the first time governments have tried to halt environmental loss through agreed targets.

In fact, many of the 24 conservation targets under discussion now aim to avoid past mistakes and improve on the world's last set of conservation goals - the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

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